The Diocese of Kansas CitySt. Joseph is seeking a Director of Development to advance the Church's mission by fostering a spirit of Christian stewardship and generosity. Working closely with the Executive Director, this role leads strategic fundraising efforts through donor engagement, major gift cultivation, and stewardship initiatives. Primarily externally focused, the Director manages a portfolio of major donors, builds meaningful relationships with benefactors, and supports fundraising initiatives that sustain and grow support for diocesan priorities. This is a full time position averaging 40 hours per week.
Key responsibilities include managing a portfolio of approximately 70 major gift prospects and donors, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding donor relationships to increase philanthropic support, conducting regular in-person meetings and meaningful touchpoints with donors and prospects, serving as a visible ambassador for the Diocese, clearly communicating mission impact and funding needs, developing and executing individualized cultivation and solicitation strategies, ensuring timely and accurate documentation of all donor interactions in the CRM, implementing established fundraising priorities and plans as directed, identifying and qualifying new donor prospects to expand the major gifts pipeline, supporting coordinated fundraising efforts across diocesan initiatives, tracking progress toward fundraising goals and providing regular activity and results reporting, supporting diocesan fundraising events, leading sponsorship outreach and solicitation efforts for events, leveraging events as opportunities to deepen donor relationships and identify new prospects, assisting in ensuring events are aligned with fundraising goals and donor engagement strategies, promoting planned giving opportunities as part of donor conversations and long-term stewardship, supporting communication efforts that increase awareness of legacy giving, building relationships with professional advisors to strengthen planned giving opportunities, working closely with the Executive Director and internal teams to ensure alignment in messaging and donor engagement, collaborating with finance and communications staff to support accurate gift processing and donor stewardship, ensuring adherence to ethical fundraising standards and diocesan policies.
Key competencies include being a strong relationship-builder with a donor-centered approach, results-oriented with a focus on securing gifts and meeting goals, confident and professional in donor-facing settings, highly organized with strong follow-through and attention to detail, an effective communicator with the ability to convey mission impact clearly and persuasively, and self-motivated with the ability to manage a portfolio and prioritize activity.
Qualifications include a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required, CFRE or advanced degree preferred, minimum 57 years of progressive fundraising experience with a demonstrated focus on major gifts, proven success managing donor relationships and closing gifts, experience with planned giving programs and strategies preferred, proficiency working in donor database systems and fundraising analytics, familiarity with planned giving concepts preferred, practicing Catholic with ethical standards, personal integrity, and conduct consistent with the morals and teachings of the Catholic Church.
Note: All employees are required to consent to a background check, commit to our Code of Conduct policy, and complete online and in-person trainings prior to hire.
Development Director • Kansas City, MO, United States
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